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THE SWORD AND SOVEREIGNTY

By
Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr.,
Ph.D., J.D.
December 17, 2012

NewsWithViews.com

Well,
Ladies and Gentlemen in the ethereal realm, once again another natural
disaster—Hurricane Sandy in this case—has exposed the insouciance,
ineptitude, and incompetence of America’s incestuously inbred
political class. Not only have these worthies and their minions in all
of the self-aggrandizing “homeland-security agencies” proven
quite unprepared to protect Americans from the effects of the storm
in an adequate and timely manner; but also over the years they have
even actively discouraged common Americans from taking the steps to
protect themselves that should have been obvious to anyone with an IQ
higher than his age. And if a mere hurricane—a type of natural
disaster with which Americans have long had experience—striking
just one part of this country overtaxes the skills of these “homeland-security
experts”, what will transpire when the monetary and banking systems
collapse throughout the land?

The
answer to this question is, of course, that unmitigated chaos will reign
supreme, particularly in urban areas.

The
way to deal with that problem is, however, not to blabber about how
supposedly “this country is finished” (as all too many disconsolate
patriots do)—or to propose such desperate expedients as “secession”,
which will not by itself guarantee preparedness, and the possible success
of which depends in the first instance upon the most heightened form
of preparedness. Rather, the correct recourse is to start revitalizing
“the Militia of the several States”, State by State, immediately
if not sooner. In which event, this country will be preserved, and appeals
to “secession” (and other pie-in-the-sky political panaceas)
will be recognized as unnecessary.

As
readers of my columns are well aware, I have been urging revitalization
of the Militia for many years—and, each and every year, some new
catastrophes wrought by Nature or outrages perpetrated by rogue public
officials have proven the wisdom of, and the increasingly urgent need
for taking, that course of action.

The
American people, however, cannot be expected to do what they are not
equipped to do. How can Americans revitalize their Militia, when they
know next to nothing about the Militia? Well, everyone is familiar with
the old saying: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for that
one day. Teach a man to fish, and he can feed himself every day thereafter.”
In the spirit of that homespun advice, I have completed a definitive
study, entitled The Sword and Sovereignty: The Constitutional Principles
of “the Militia of the several States”, which should provide
every reader with all of the information requisite to understand the
origin of the Militia, their special place under the Declaration of
Independence and within the Constitution’s federal system, and
why (as the Second Amendment declares) they are “necessary to
the security of a free State”. Not optional, but necessary.

Among
other topics covered in its 1,944 pages of text, The Sword and Sovereignty
explains:

•
how the Militia would serve as the ultimate embodiments and instruments
of WE THE PEOPLE’S authority under the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution;

•
how the Militia would enable to States to enforce federalism through
constitutional interposition against rogue agents of the General Government;

•
how the Militia would enable a patriotic President of the United States
to fulfill his constitutional duty to “take Care that the Laws
be faithfully executed” against those combinations that now threaten
this country’s independence and well-being, but are too powerful
to be suppressed through the normal course of honest judicial proceedings;

•
how the Militia would expose and punish usurpations of power and mal-administration
by rogue and incompetent public officials at every level of the federal
system;

•
how the Militia would provide the indispensable “checks and balances”
against a rogue “standing army” and “military-industrial
complex”;

•
how the Militia would eliminate all “gun control” that did
not specifically promote “the right of the people to keep and
bear Arms”;

•
how the Militia would put a stop to the present-day rampages of police
brutality once and for all, in the most swift, sure, and severe manner
possible;

•
how the Militia would guarantee the conduct of honest elections; and,
last but not least,

•
how the Militia would establish in the most expeditious fashion an economically
sound and constitutional alternative currency and structure of new free-market
prices in anticipation of the inevitable collapse of the Federal Reserve
System’s fascistic banking cartel.